POSSIBLE ANSWERS FOR LISTENING COMPREHENSION MOCK 2009 (CAPE 2008

EXAM)

1. YOUR ANSWER MUST CONTAIN ....WORKING LIFE VERSUS SLAVERY ....The

persona strongly dislikes working, see it as slavery and wants to be free

a) Suggested title....Working is not for me....I’m one of the hippy free....Hippy

Free....Down with Democracy

i) Two phrases that will justify my choice of title....”That’s why I don’t want
work. Doing what I want to do”/////or I prefer to spend my days in the
town to sit and gaze....All my life I want to be free (ACCEPTABLE
ANSWERS MUST SUPPORT YOUR TITLE ....REMEMBER LADIES
PLEASE BE SPECIFIC!!! TAKE ANSWERS THAT ARE JUMPING OUT AT
YOU...DON’T DIG TOO DEEP NOR SCRAPE THE BOTTOM OF THE
BARREL!!!!!

b) THIS QUESTION ASKED FOR 2 EXAMPLES OF RHYMES IN THE POEM....YOU

CAN EITHER WRITE OUT THE LINES OR GIVE THE WORDS...SEE/FREE,
NAME/GAME etc

3) THREE EXAMPLES OF METAPHORS....THIS WAS THE QUESTION THAT ONLY

1 PERSON GOT ALL 3...LADIES PLEASE LEARN YOUR LITERARY
/DEVICES FOR BOTH THIS PART OF THE EXAM AND FOR MODULE ONE
OF PAPER TWO (ESSAY) .... a) GOVERNMENT SLAVE... b) MORAL SLAVE
c) PLAY THE GAME

4) REMEMBER WHEN WE COMMENT ON EFFECTIVENESS WE MUST TALK ABOUT

....WHAT THE DEVICE HAS ADDED TO THE PIECE OR GIVEN TO THE
READER... OR HELPS THE AUTHOR TO ACHIEVE HIS PURPOSE....LOOK
AT IT FROM VISUAL OR IMAGERY,

SHORT ANSWER PAPER PAPER 01 (1

HOUR)
TIPS...
 BE SPECIFIC! BE SPECIFIC! BE SPECIFIC!

 READ THESE QUESTIONS CAREFULLY!!! READ QUESTIONS

CAREFULLY!!

 SOME STUDENTS WRITE TOO MUCH GENERALISATIONS!!! BE

SPECIFIC BY ADDRESSING THE QUESTIONS!

 GIVE EXAMPLE WHEREVER NECESSARY TO SUPPORT

QUESTION 9) ...CHILDREN NOT ALLOWED

Must be accompanied by an adult

The BARRIER here is A PRESENTATIONAL

BARRIER...explanation being that the message is
ambiguous/ambivalent or not specific enough

ESSAY QUESTIONS
MODULE ONE

LADIES WITH THE PROBLEMATIC HANDWRITING....BE

WARNED...DO SOMETHING TO MAKE READING YOUR WORK
EASIER!!!!

 IN THIS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT YOUR ANSWERS WITH

EXAMPLES FOR THE PIECE!!!

 LEARN YOUR LITERARY DEVICES AND STRATEGIES YOU

NEED BETWEEN 4-5 EXAMPLES

 REMEMBER THAT YOU NEED TO COMMENT ON THE

EFFECTIVENESS OF THESE TECHNIQUES/STRATEGIES

 THE STRATEGIES IN THIS ESSAY WERE: comparison and

contrast eg ‘and Roger thinking....and Elaine is thinking,
hyperbole eg “We’re talking about different planets in
completely different solar systems”, anecdote eg ‘Let’s
say a guy named Roger....(this can also be an example)
Conversational tone eg “So that means it was....let’s
see...”, analogy ... to a car, truck tyres, warranty, tune
 up,..simile, repetition, allusion to Fairy tale romance,
humor

 THE WRITER’S PURPOSE IN THIS PIECE WAS TO PUT

FORWARD ARGUMENTS TO SUPPORT HIS IDEA THAT MEN
AND RELATIONSHIPS ARE VERY COMPLEX AND NEAR
IMPOSSIBLE TO DEVELOP AND SUSTAIN

MODULE 2 LANGUAGE AND COMMUNITY

 REMEMBER THAT DIALECTAL VARIATION MEANS....the standard
of the country’s English eg Trinidad Std English, and the Creole
of the country..eg Trinidad Creole which can now have Acrolect
(nearest to the Std but not the Std!!), mesolect and the
basilect.

 DIALECT IS NOT A DIALECTAL VARIATION...every country has

dialects, but only countries where slavery was eg in the USA
there is Creole eg in the deep South, New Orleans etc but in
England there is no Creole but there are dialect!!!

 REMEMBER TO GIVE AN EXAMPLE FOR EVERYTHING THAT THEY

ASK YOU FOR..

 FOCUS ON ACCENTS IS a non-linguistic factor